NLRB Reverses Position on Confidentiality Concerning Workplace ...

Avoid the Hot Seat: An Interview with the NLRB - Ward and Smith, P.A.

Regardless of how advantageous it may seem to include a non-compete, non-disparagement, and/ or confidentiality clause in a severance agreement, ...

NLRB Shifts to Employer-Friendly View of Workplace Rules

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb recently issued a new Guidance Memorandum detailing how NLRB Regional ...

NLRB 2020 Predictor: It's Good to be an Employer - Barley Snyder

Current NLRB rule changes favor the interests of employers. These developments include election procedures, workplace rules, employer's email ...

NLRB Rules Nondisclosure and Nondisparage Provisions Unlawful ...

The NLRB noted provisions requiring an employee to keep the terms or existence of a severance agreement confidential or prohibiting ...

Employers Beware: NLRB Expands Scope of Protected Concerted ...

It is within that context that on January 31, 2022, the NLRB issued an advice memorandum (“advice memo”) regarding whether an employee's social ...

Companies can no longer silence laid-off employees in exchange ...

“A severance agreement is unlawful if it precludes an employee from assisting coworkers with workplace issues concerning their employer, and ...

NLRB Changes Rules for Employee Severance Agreements

The hospital had presented the employees with a “Severance Agreement, Waiver and Release,” (“Agreement”) offering them severance if they signed ...

NLRB General Counsel Issues Memorandum Addressing ...

NLRB General Counsel Issues Memorandum Addressing “Implications” of McLaren Macomb Decision for Severance Agreements Containing Broad ...

The Future of Employment Settlement Agreements - Larkin Hoffman

The NLRB discussed how public statements by employees about the workplace are “central to the exercise of employee rights under the Act,” even if they harm ...

NLRB Places New Limitations on Confidentiality and Non ... - Lexology

For example, employees could interpret these provisions as restricting them from speaking to their former co-workers about ongoing workplace ...

HR Def: Employers Beware: The NLRB Limits Severance Agreements

This time the NLRB has held that certain confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in severance agreements violate Section 7 rights under ...

Employer Rights to Control the Workplace Reinstated by President ...

Employers May Guard Confidentiality in Workplace Investigations ... Similarly, the NLRB reversed recent precedent by finding that employers can ...

NLRB Reverses Controversial Opinion Regarding Confidentiality

Previously, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had taken a position that employers could not require employees to keep ongoing internal investigations ...

The NLRB's General Counsel Issues Guidance Memorandum on ...

The memorandum confirms the Board's position stated in McLaren: if the severance agreement contains an overly broad confidentiality and/or non- ...

Impact of New NLRB Standard on Workplace Rules

The National Labor Relations Board swung to a Democratic majority after the 2020 election of President Joe Biden.

NLRB Reverses Rule Regarding Temporary Employees

In a much-anticipated decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on July 11, 2016, reversed its existing precedent on organizing of ...

Early Gifts for Employers: NLRB Changes Course Regarding ...

The NLRB holding only applies to confidentiality rules that are “limited to the duration of open investigations.” The Board held that ...

Employers Beware: NLRB Cometh for Non-Compete Agreements

The General Counsel's announcement on non-compete agreements also follows the NLRB's recent decision holding that overly broad confidentiality ...

NLRB Says Employers Can No Longer Use Severance Agreements ...

Reversing a decision made under the previous administration, the board held in McLaren Macomb that requiring a laid-off employee to sign a ...

Updated: NLRB Rules Broad – Yet Common – Confidentiality and ...

21, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that severance agreements with broad – yet common – confidentiality and non-disparagement ...